Report: Speed Cameras Tickets Stopped

The city's speed camera transition has apparently hit a snag... or a speed bump... or, well... just insert the appropriate traffic metaphor here.

It's looking like the upgrade to the system that will see all 83 cameras installed by the previous vendor replaced with new state of the art devices might take several months, according to state officials.

In the meantime, The Baltimore Sun reported that the entire system is down for the count.

Officials with the city transportation department said that the cameras have not issued any tickets at all since the start of the new year. As for the red light cameras, fewer than two dozen citations since January 1.

Additionally, some drivers have been told that they will get refunds for recent citations that were apparently wrong. There have been approximately more than 200 tickets that have been voided.

Last year, officials confimed that the city switched vendors-- replacing Xerox with Brekford, a new company planning to swap out all of the cameras.